DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,260

SUPPLIER LINK SERVICES
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM
SUPERIOR STAFFING
LAFAYETTE, CALIFORNIA

Certification Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended ("Act"), 19 U.S.C. § 2273, the Department of Labor herein
presents the results of an investigation regarding certification
of eligibility to apply for worker adjustment assistance.
The group eligibility requirements for workers of a firm
under Section 222(c) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c), can be
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
I. a significant number or proportion of the workers in
the workers' firm or an appropriate subdivision of the
firm have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;

II. the workers' firm is a Supplier or Downstream Producer
to a firm that employed a group of workers who received
a certification of eligibility under Section 222(a) of
the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), and such supply or
production is related to the article or service that
was the basis for such certification; and

III. either
(A) the workers' firm is a supplier and the component parts
it supplied to the firm described in paragraph (2)
accounted for at least 20 percent of the production or
sales of the workers' firm; or
(B) a loss of business by the workers' firm with the firm
described in paragraph (2) contributed importantly to
the workers' separation or threat of separation.

Section 222(d) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(d), defines the
term "Supplier" as "a firm that produces and supplies directly to
another firm component parts for articles, or in the supply of
services, as the case may be, that were the basis for a
certification of eligibility under subsection (a) [of Section 222
of the Act] of a group of workers employed by such other firm."
The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on January 13, 2010 by a State Workforce Office on behalf
of workers of Supplier Link Service, Lafayette, California.
Workers at the subject firm are engaged in employment related to
the supply of vehicle inspection and logistics services. The
workers are not separately identifiable by service supplied. The
worker group includes on-site leased workers from Superior
Staffing.
The investigation revealed that workers of Supplier Link
Services, who are engaged in the supply of vehicle inspection
and logistics services, meet the criteria as Suppliers for
secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number or
proportion of the workers at Supplier Link Services has been
totally or partially separated, or are threatened with such
separation, during the relevant time period.
Criterion II has been met because Supplier Link Services
supplied services used in the production of automobiles to a
firm that employed a worker group that is currently eligible to
apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), and the services
supplied are related to the production of the article that was
the basis for the TAA certification.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business by
Supplier Link Services, with respect to vehicle inspection and
logistics services supplied to the firm with the TAA-certified
worker group, contributed importantly to worker separations at
the Lafayette, California facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Supplier Link
Services, who are engaged in the supply of vehicle inspection
and logistics services, meet the worker group certification
criteria under Section 222(c) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c). In
accordance with Section 223 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2273, I make
the following certification:
"All workers of Supplier Link Services, including on-site
leased workers from Superior Staffing, Lafayette,
California, who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after January 12, 2009, through two years
from the date of certification, and all workers in the group


threatened with total or partial separation from employment
on the date of certification through two years from the date
of certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment
assistance under Chapter 2 of Title II of the Trade Act of
1974, as amended."
Signed in Washington, D.C., this 14th day of May, 2010


/s/Del Min Amy Chen
______________________________
DEL MIN AMY CHEN
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance